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Originally posted by GertDeSmet
I have followed the procedure and i still cant run Java. When i do java -version it says java command not found. here is my profile :
PATH=/usr/java/j2re-1.4.0_03/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/julien/bin
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re-1.4.0_03
PATH=/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/julien/bin
export JAVA_HOME
thnx a lot in advance 4 ur help 
gert |
First, $JAVA_HOME should be written before your $PATH statement.
Second, Your path statement with your $JAVA_HOME path statement should be written as follows:
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/julien/bin
So your profile should look like this:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re-1.4.0_03
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/julien/bin
Next you would need to type:
source /etc/profile
or
. /etc/profile #make sure there is a space between the period (.) and slash (/).
or
source ~/.bash_profile
or
. ~/.bash_profile #Make sure there is a space between the period (.) and tilde (~).
or simply logout and then back in to your system to initialize your system to use the new changes to your shell environment.
The dot/period (.) is the same as the "source" command on most systems that don't recognize the "source" command.
HTH
altoine